Thanking GOD for “Un-Guides” – Sarah Palin … (09/01/14)
Unlike Barack Obama, who talks an “enlightened”, compassionate game but all too often enlivens exactly the opposite, Sarah Palin is a far more typical “False Prophet”, in that her divisive actions tend to match her divisive words, with both of them proving to be founded in — and actively promoting — fear, negativity, condemnation, aggression &/or conflict.
To that end, while it certainly cannot always be the case, her track record as a public figure makes it exceedingly clear that Sarah Palin is a woman who proudly stands for violence towards all she deems to be “enemies”, intolerance towards all who hold beliefs other than her own, and an active disregard towards any information that transcends the bounds of her comfort zone. In essence, she stands for conservatism, callousness & conflict in a time when humanity desperately needs open-mindedness, compassion & peace.
And as such, in line with the major premise of this short series of “Un-Guide Tributes”, instead of choosing to get upset with Sarah Palin, we can be thankful for her showing us the “un-Way” … Instead of ridiculing her more ridiculous statements or denigrating her more outrageous beliefs, we can choose to send her heartfelt compassion for a belief system that simply must be highly unsettling to claim and that simply must be highly disturbing to champion … And then, from that more calm & caring frame of mind, we can then go lucidly forth into our lives and actively do exactly the opposite of what Sarah Palin would have us do … For example:
*When Sarah Palin tells us that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke” (from her CPAC speech on March 8, 2014), we can choose to reach out to our enemies with open acts of kindness & forgiveness.
*When Sarah Palin asks New Yorkers to “please refute the Ground Zero mosque plan” (Tweet from July 18, 2010), they can continue to fully embrace that plan — along with all plans like it and all members of all other religions as well (and thereby the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to boot).
*When Sarah Palin encourages oil companies to “drill, baby, drill” (Facebook note on June 8, 2010), then we can actively campaign for the END to the use of all fossil fuels, and actively support the development & use of all Earth-friendly alternative energies.
*When Sarah Palin reminds us (incorrectly) that Paul Revere rode to warn the British “that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms” (speech on June 3, 2011), we can do everything in our power to stop the insanity that is gun violence (an insanity that is conclusively linked to gun production & gun possession).
*When Sarah Palin quips quite earnestly that “If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?” (a quote from her book “Going Rogue”), then we can go vegan for those innocent animals, and we can do so post haste!
*When Sarah Palin claims that the $700 billion bank bailout gave “help to those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy” (interview with Katie Couric on Sept 24, 2008), we can know that it was nothing of the sort — we can know that said bailout was an unjust, illegitimate & corrupt bonus given to businesses who didn’t (and still don’t) care one bit about either America or Americans.
*When Sarah Palin admonishes Dr. Laura Schlessinger for resigning from her popular radio show after using the N-word 11 times in five minutes by tweeting: “Dr. Laura: don’t retreat…reload!” (August 18, 2010), we can go out into our communities and do whatever we can to reach out to members of other races & other creeds & other sexual orientations & other species; to do whatever we can to completely eliminate the scourge of bigotry from our society.
*And when Sarah Palin says that the American government should “create law based on the God of the Bible and the Ten Commandments” (interview with Bill O’Reilly on May 6, 2010), we can strive to maintain the actual intent of the American Founding Fathers by keeping our communities & our schools (and thereby the United States, and one day the world) fully & Respect-fully secular.
Amen … Let it be so.
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